Supreme Court's Rails to Trails Ruling Won't Affect Our Region's Trails

The trail world is abuzz over Monday's Supreme Court ruling in favor of the Wyoming land owners Marvin Brandt Revocable Trust. The ruling awarded ownership of a mile section of the Medicine Bow Rail Trail to the trust, whose land surrounds the trail. The case is considered to be a major blow to rail-trail development and may result in the closing of hundreds of miles of rail trails in Western United States.

While this is a very troubling development for our Western colleagues, the decision will not affect any trails on the Circuit. The Rails-To-Trails Conservancy has created this neat infographic below. The last checkpoint at the bottom should put any local fears to rest.

To find out more about the case go to www.railstotrails.org/supremecourt.

Help Save New Jersey's Recreation Trails Program

New Jersey has some terrific trails, both part of The Circuit and outside our region's dominant trail system. These trails have been bolstered by $1 million a year in trail funding provided by federal transportation dollars.

The Recreational Trails Program has helped
build the Lawrence Hopewell Trail in Mercer County

Right now, however, New Jersey is sitting on nearly $2 million in trail funding, unable to use it or spend it because there's no one to administer the grants. program.

The short story is that New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has been shifting staff resources to deal with Hurricane Sandy recovery projects. Which is important, but that staffing shift includes the person responsible for administering this trail funding money. This article on Philly.com written by Michele Byers of the NJ Conservation Foundation gives a good overview of the issue.

There are obvious fixes to this, but the DEP needs prodding. Send an email to Robert Martin, Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, and urge him restore New Jersey's Recreational Trail Program.

Take Action

This trail money is given in $25,000 (or smaller) grants to build, promote, or maintain trails. These things take time, and spring is nearly here. New Jersey is not acting on $1 million allocated last year, and has also frozen $1 million for 2014. Let's get that money working for trails in New Jersey!

The Dream of Biking to the King of Prussia Cinnabon Just Got 6 Miles Closer to Reality

The Chester Valley Trail is a big part of the Circuit: a 37-mile backbone trail connecting many of Chester County's busiest communities. Much of it is still in the planning stage, but this week 5.8 miles of it officially opened! The dream of biking from Coatesville to the King of Prussia food court on dedicated bike trail has never been closer to reality!

To see how this trail connects to the wider Circuit, visit the trail's page on ConnecttheCircuit.org

The Chester County Commissioners have issued a press release announcing the official opening of Phase 2 of the Chester Valley Trail from the Wegman's in Malvern to Old Eagle School Road in Tredyffrin Township. This new section increases the continuous length of the trail to 11 miles.

The easternmost section of Phase 2 from Old Eagle School to Warner Road is still officially closed and is considered an active construction zone. This closure may continue until the completion of the Warner Road Trailhead, which would be the likely site for what we hope is a springtime ribbon cutting. When opened, this section will connect the just-opened trail to the existing 1-mile stretch in King of Prussia. Biking to the mall will have never been easier!

The press release also mentioned the start of construction of Phase 3 in March. This will extend the west end of the trail from Exton Park to another stub section of the Chester Valley Trail at Iron Lake Rd. If all goes as planned that section of trail will be opened by this time next year.

Note: A version of this was originally posted on the Circuit's official blog.

MontCo to Close Segment of Schuylkill River Trail in Norristown

A half mile of the Schuylkill River Trail in Norristown will be closed for two or three months beginning next week. We received a press release (see below) announcing the closure, which is due to the Lafayette Street extension construction project. The closure runs from Ford Street to Ross Street in Norristown.

The red line is the section of SRT that will be closed starting January 27th.

Montgomery County officials told us that liability concerns are preventing them from establishing a detour route. This is disappointing, and we provided them with the following recommendations:

1) Install "Bicycles May Use Full Lane" signs on Main Street, to make motorists aware of bicyclists using the road.
2) Put a map of of the closure and adjoining roads on the signs that will be posted at both ends of the closure to allow bicyclists to know where they can get back on the trail.
3) Place a phone number or email address on the sign for bicyclists and pedestrians to report incidents. 

Thus far, we have not heard yet if and how Montgomery County will agree to our recommendations. In the meantime, you can post comments on our Biking the Suburbs Facebook group page.

UPDATE: January 22, 2014

Montgomery County is considering BCGP's suggestions.  Monday's holiday and snow days have slowed down the response, but we have been assured that they will get back to us shortly. 

Haddonfield Update - A Partial Victory For Grove Street Bike Lanes

Officials in Haddonfield Borough and Camden County have forged a compromise agreement on the installation of bike lanes on Grove St. Bike lanes will be included between Hopkins and South Edge Park Drive (shown in blue on the map). The rest of the project will follow the original plan, which includes standard shoulders north and south of the bike lanes. The roadway will narrow at the north end and it will not include shoulders (shown in red) and there are no plans to include sharrows on this short segment. Instead the project team is looking at the possibility of widening the sidewalk for bicycle use to improve the connection to the Cooper River Trail in Pennypacker Park.



We applaud the cooperation between the Borough, the County and the residents who helped shape the final design of this project. Overall this will be a major improvement for bicyclists and pedestrians who want to to travel between the Historic Downtown and Camden County's largest park network.

Still we are mindful of the disconnect between the conventional (and outdated) transportation thinking that "shoulders are bikeways" vs. the NJ State Supreme Court's "shoulders are not bike lanes" decision in the Polzo vs County of Essex case. It's a dilemma that the state has to resolve and it will require a rewrite of the State's vehicle code and NJDOT's bikeway accommodation guidelines.

Click here for updates on the Grove Street project.

Bike Lanes vs Beautification - A False Choice In Haddonfield

A grassroots effort to install bike lanes on a critical connection between downtown Haddonfield and a major trail on the Circuit has been rejected by Haddonfield Borough officials and the Camden County Department of Public Works in favor of parking lanes and a center median.

Grove St - A good proposal for bike lanes

The street in question is Grove from Pardee Lane to Edge Park Drive. This section connects the Cooper River Trail into Haddonfield Borough. This section of Grove does not currently have bike facilities, but its generous width and the typically-empty 10-foot shoulders make it a popular bicycling route. Grove street has been designated as a bike route connecting the Hopkins Pond trail to the Cooper River.

"Where should the poor girl park for all tomorrow's parties?" Apparently on Grove Street.

Grove Street's wide profile tends to induce speeding to and from Route 70, so Haddonfield has proposed a makeover to calm traffic and reduce turning conflicts. Bike lanes were recommended by the Environmental Commission, other organization members and local cyclists, and the proposal was submitted to the Borough and County Engineer for review.

However, last month the County Engineering Department wrote a letter to Haddonfield Mayor Kasko stating that bike lanes were not compatible with parking and a center median, and Camden County's policy "preferred traffic calming and beautification over bike lanes." This letter seems to have formed the basis for Haddonfield Borough to drop the idea of bike lanes and instead plan for a center median with mountable curb sections so residents can turn left out of their driveways.

Grove Street - Haddonfield Borough's Preferred Alternative

This question of traffic calming over bike lanes is a false choice. Bike lanes are a known instrument in traffic calming. Furthermore, a similar arterial in nearby Cherry Hill, Kings Highway (NJ State Route 41), has an identical width and successfully-installed bike lanes. The proposal also forgoes sidewalk improvements and does not include new crosswalks or intersection "bump-outs" as the Environmental Commission requested in their proposal.

Haddonfield does not have a Complete Streets Policy to appeal to, but Camden County just passed one in December. The Borough is debating the possibility of a Complete Streets policy, but a policy development committee has not yet been formed. The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission has completed a Camden County Bicycle Trails Master Plan, but its adoption might not happen until this summer. State-wide, New Jersey communities are adopting the concept of Complete Streets, which implements best practices for making our streets safe and pleasant for all users.

If the proposed design is implemented, bicyclists will be left with a narrower shoulder periodically interrupted by parked cars. And as we have reported before, the NJ State Supreme Court has ruled that bicyclists do not have legal protections in the shoulder. So this street design is effectively not accommodating bicycles. Meanwhile, pedestrians are saved from trudging through mud in a couple places, but are not protected by best-practice infrastructure.

This project represents a lost opportunity for Haddonfield Borough to unify one of its suburban neighborhoods with the historic walkable core by creating a truly complete street. Haddonfield shouldn't have to settle for mediocrity.

UPDATE - Haddonfield Commissioner John Muscatelli has requested Camden County Public Works to revisit the design of Grove St. However earlier today Camden County Senior Planner Andrew Levecchia informed Haddonfield advocates that the project was conceived as beautification and traffic calming and it will be limited to that.

2013 was a Good Year for Bicycling in Our City and Region

Year-end bicycling blog posts are a strange undertaking. The best parts of a year's worth of bicycling are not easily ordered, numbered, or even classified. My personal "bicycling year in review" would include things like this:

• February: The first day in months I rode without gloves.
• June: Rode down Locust and banked perfectly into the turn such that I got nearly to the intersection at South Street without pedaling.
• December: Got caught riding back from Belmont Mansion Plateau during a snowstorm.
• Every month: All those times I wasn't stuck in a car in traffic.

But here at the Bicycle Coalition, we also trade in victories, events, new trails, new legislation, and other, more tangible aspects of bicycling. So as we look forward to another year of better bicycling in the Greater Philadelphia Region, here are some of the things that happened in 2013 which deserve partial credit for the good 2014 rides yet to come.

A By-No-Means-Comprehensive Look at Bicycling Milestones in 2013

January

• Our artist-designed bike rack project is named a Knight Arts Challenge grant finalist. Look for an announcement on the winning designs this spring!

Sign Our Petition Supporting Trail Building in 2014

Have You Signed the Circuit Petition?

When complete, 50% of our region will live within 1 mile of a Circuit trail

More than 2,000 people have affixed their name to our petition calling for funding and supporting trails in our region. Will you join them? We especially need signatures from trail supporters in New Jersey.

Connecting the Circuit is one of our most critical and ambitious campaigns. We are a leading member of the Circuit Coalition, the group working to connect the Greater Philadelphia Region with a world-class network of biking and walking trails (the Circuit).

Imagine getting on your bike and being able to ride all day, uninterrupted, on dedicated car-free bicycle and pedestrian paths. Imagine biking from Bartram's Garden to Longwood Gardens, from Collingswood to Center City Philadelphia, or from the Perkiomen Trail to Pennypack Park. That's the vision of the Circuit - a 750 mile network of trails spanning 9 counties.

You could start here and end up in Haddonfield or Newtown, all without leaving dedicated trail.
Credit: Philly Love Notes

We want to build a green highway system, connecting our neighborhoods to jobs, to shopping centers, to parks and rivers, and to each other. In 2014 we will be holding critical meetings with regional funding sources, asking them to dedicate money to build miles and miles of trail. We want to show the depth and breath of popular support for trails, from every corner of the Greater Philadelphia Region.

If you support this vision, add your name to the petition. Thank you!

Manayunk Bridge Trail Construction Job Is Now Advertised!

After several years of hard work among numerous regional, municipal, state and transit partners, the City of Philadelphia and PennDOT have advertised the construction job of building a trail on top of the Manayunk Bridge.  WootWoot!   

This new Circuit trail will connect the Cynwyd Heritage Trail in Lower Merion over to the corner of Dupont and High Streets in Manayunk. A second phase will continue the trail to the Ivy Ridge Train Station.

The technical jargon is as follows:

The Manayunk Bridge Trail MPMS# 92413 has now been listed on the City of Philadelphia Office of Procurements list of Public Works Bidding Opportunities.

The listing indicates that the specifications will be available through Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Engineering and Construction Management System (ECMS) on 12/17/2013 and that the bid opening date is planned to be 1/16/2014. The City’s bid number is 3749ECMS.

Congratulations to the many partners who made this project possible!  It's going to be a phenomenal addition to the Circuit!

Become a Circuit Champion and Build Our Region's Trails

Connecting the Circuit is one of our most critical and ambitious campaigns. We are a leading member of the Circuit Coalition, the group working to connect the Greater Philadelphia Region with a world-class network of biking and walking trails (the Circuit).

Imagine getting on your bike and being able to ride all day, uninterrupted, on dedicated car-free bicycle and pedestrian paths. Imagine biking from Bartram's Garden to Longwood Gardens, from Collingswood to Center City Philadelphia, or from the Perkiomen Trail to Pennypack Park. That's the vision of the Circuit - a 750 mile network of trails spanning 9 counties, which when done will put 50% of the region's residents living within 1 mile of a trail.

The Manayunk Bridge is part of the Circuit, a trail we hope will open in 2015

As we undertake this work, we are seeking partners - individuals who share this vision for a region connected by trails. So we are launching the Circuit Champions.

Circuit Champions are ambitious individuals like us, who believe in the idea that our workplaces, our homes, our communities, and our parks and rivers should be connected by safe paths for walking and biking.

Circuit Champions get us closer to this vision by making sustaining gifts to the Bicycle Coalition. These gifts allow us to pursue the work of trail building: rallying community support and presenting it to funders, negotiating the closing of key trail gaps with property owners, and fighting for trails in Philadelphia, Harrisburg, and Washington D.C.

If you believe in the importance of the Circuit and its potential to enrich our entire region for generations to come, consider becoming a Circuit Champion. If you join before December 31st, you will be invited to an exclusive behind-the-scenes trail walk for a glimpse of two future trail bridges in Manayunk - the Manayunk Bridge and the Pencoyd Bridge.

Are you ready to step up and support the Circuit? Become a Circuit Champion.

A Grant Which Funded Many Bike Trails In Our Region Is Now Depleted

Oliver's excited to start building trails and
bicycle reefs, which are underwater bicycle trails

On September 26th the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) Board approved funding for 13 trail projects. With this $3.9 million allocation, the $10 million grant from the William Penn Foundation is fully depleted.

The Regional Trail Program funded by WPF helped build many valuable and beloved trails in our region. But there are many miles of The Circuit yet to be built. This is why we're running the Circuit Commitment Campaign: to raise new dedicated funds for trails in our region.

It's also why this week's fight in Harrisburg to secure funding for bicycle and walking in a PA transportation bill is vital. If you haven't already, speak up for bicycling and walkings' importance right now!

Here are the 13 projects approved last week by the DVRPC Board:

Public Meetings This Week Discussing Future Philly Trails and Parks

Parks and Recreation and the Planning Commission are jointly holding a public meeting tonight (9/30) at 6:00 pm at the Juniata Golf Course to get input on the feasibility study of the Frankford Creek. This trail would link the Tacony Creek trail down to the Delaware River. This study was funded by DVRPC's Regional Trail Fund.

Philadelphia Parks and Recreation is also holding two of four public meetings this week - September 30th & October 2 - to help it create a vision for East-West Fairmount Park. This is a great opportunity to weigh in on how East-West Park are managed, path conditions along MLK Drive and Kelly Drive, directional signage, etc. If you feel strongly about any of these issues, then take this opportunity to have your voice heard.

September 30th
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Discovery Charter School
4700 Parkside Ave

The October 2nd meeting will be at Lloyd Hall from 6:00-8:30 pm.

UPDATED: A New Jersey trail is receiving its ribbon cutting tomorrow. Announcement below:

We are delighted to announce the official opening of the BMS Princeton Pike / The Lawrenceville School segment of the Lawrence Hopewell Trail. This segment starts at the historic Brearley Oak and continues on a rolling path through the scenic Bristol-Myers Squibb property on the corner of Princeton Pike and Lewisville Road. It continues across the Lawrenceville School athletic fields to connect with the trail through campus. In addition to the ribbon-cutting, we will take this opportunity to celebrate our eleven-year journey to create the trail and to acknowledge the people who have supported us and made the trail and our success possible.

Lawrence Hopewell Trail Ribbon Cutting
Tuesday, October 1st
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
The Lawrenceville School
Lewisville Road
Lawrence Township, NJ 08648

Light-Up Bike Parade Tomorrow! Part of Family-Friendly Event Series At Gray's Ferry Crescent

This weekend we are joining forces with The Hacktory, Public Workshop, and Schuylkill River Development Corporation to shed some light on the best little-unknown section of The Circuit: the Gray's Ferry Crescent.

The Crescent is a piece of the Schuylkill River Trail that curves around the eastern side of the Schuylkill River in between University Avenue Bridge and the Gray's Ferry Bridge in South Philadelphia. (See it on a map here.)

The inaugural event of the Hacktory's Light Up the Crescent is a "Firefly Swarm," or lighted bike parade, that will happen tomorrow (Wednesday) at Rittenhouse Square and meander down to the Gray's Ferry Crescent, collecting people along the way. Grab a bike, wrap it and yourself in as many lights or glowing things as you can, and join the ride! Bicycle Coalition staff are meeting up with the parade at 7pm at the SW corner of Rittenhouse Square. We need more bicyclists! Please join us! This will be a family-friendly event.

Lit-Up Bike Parade 
Wednesday, September 18th
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Meet at SW corner of Rittenhouse Park

All three groups are putting on a series of events over the next 2 weeks, including skateboarding competitions, birdhouse and robotics building workshops, and more! See below for the list.

There's a Free Bike Rental Service in Phoenixville

Looking to take a bike ride in Phoenixville? There's an under-the-radar free bike rental program being run by the Phoenixville Green Team.

You can visit Phoenix Cycles at 165 Bridge Street to obtain a 3-speed cruiser bike for the day. You must only leave a driver's license or other form of collateral. It's part of the city's efforts to encourage outdoor activity, green transportation, and fun.

More info can be found at the Green Team website.

Circuit Supporters Fanning Out Around the Region This Weekend

Supporters of The Circuit will be out in force this weekend! We've been furiously mailing out postcards to volunteers, who will be out tabling at events and collecting postcards from trail users. These postcards are declarations of support for The Circuit's campaign to have $10 million allocated toward regional trails within the nine county region.

Haven't yet signed a postcard or lent your voice to trail advocacy? Here's where you can find Circuit materials this weekend.

Saturday

• Rich Kerr & Peter Puglionesi of Friends of Haverford Trails will be at the Haverford Music Festival. 
• Tom Hibbs of  the Penn-Tammany Greenway Coalition will be at Tamanend Park Day in Upper Southhampton.
• Jim Fries of Delaware River City Corporation will be at Coast Day in the Independence Seaport Museum
• SRDC staff will have cards at the Philly Fun Fishing Fest on Schuylkill Banks
• Bicycle Coalition staff will be at the Camden County Boathouse on the Cooper River Trail Saturday afternoon.  

Sunday

• Tom Hibbs will be at Northhampton Days in Richboro. There is a parade at 12 noon and Tom would welcome more people to join him and other cyclists in the parade.
• David Bennett and BCGP staff will  be the Scenic Schuylkill Century.
• Bicycle Coalition staff will be at GreenfestPhilly in Headhouse Square in Philadelphia.
• BCGP staff will also be at the Delaware River Heritage Trail Ribbon Cutting in Bordentown

Stop by, say hi, and sign a postcard if you haven't already! If you have signed a postcard, thank you!

Visit Us at Outbound Station in Conshohocken This Saturday

Thinking about taking a bike ride on the Schuylkill River Trail this weekend? Stop by the Outbound Station on Saturday from 1-4pm. We'll be on site behind a bountiful table of maps, t-shirts, and other bike information! We will also be asking folks to sign postcards to help us secure funding to build new sections of trail in our region!

The Outbound Station is a cafe right along the Schuylkill River Trail (2 Harry Street, Conshohocken PA). Insider sources report they offer excellent red velvet pound cake and iced coffee.

Be Part of the Circuit Commitment Campaign (There's Something Happening Here)

To appropriate Buffalo Springfield* (not the first time it's happened):

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
Until I read that blog post right here
A tellin' me to put my hand in the air

It's time we STOP, bikers, what's that sound
Everybody look what needs more funding

Okay, we lost it there at the end. But there IS something happening here, and if you enjoy bicycling, running, or walking on beautiful trails, this is a call for you to raise your hand just like these trail supporters did in June:

June's Circuit Caucs meetings from New Jersey (left) and Pennsylvania (right). Not shown: Muppet Circuit Caucus

We have begun the Circuit Commitment Campaign, the goal of which is to harness public support to secure funding for new trails in our region.

You are the "public support" part of this equation. If you'd like to see the Schuylkill River Trail extended south, or bring the Chester Valley Trail into Lancaster County, or build the Delaware Heritage Trail in New Jersey (for example), here's what you can do:

• Sign the online Circuit petition and post it to your Facebook and Twitter accounts.
• Educate yourself on The Circuit and the campaign with this narrated presentation.
• Help our postcard campaign by distributing postcards to your church, favorite coffee shop, bike club, or other public space. E-mail us and we'll mail them to you.
• Add the Circuit take action button to your website and hyperlink it to the petition.
• Share this 400-word story about the campaign with your bicycle club, Friend of a Trail club, or outdoorsy listserv.

Background
In late June, trail supporters in Pennsylvania and New Jersey gathered together at two Circuit Caucus meetings to learn more about how they can help build the remaining 450 miles of The Circuit. At the meeting, we laid out the components of the Circuit Commitment campaign, which is working toward the goal of replenishing the region's trail fund with $10 million. We will be asking County officials who sit on the board of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission to allocate $10 million toward trail planning, design and construction for trails in the nine counties that are part of The Circuit. We need to make the case to decision makers that there is widespread public support for trail funding.

So please - stop, bicyclists, hear this sound, everybody say why they love their trails. (*cue harmonica solo)

*UPDATE: this was originally cited as Dusty Springfield. This error is due in part to the blog editor (NM) being born in the 1980s. Sarah would not have gotten this wrong.

Asking for the Best Ramp on the Ben Franklin Bridge

Since 2005 we have been working to make the Ben Franklin Bridge more accessible for bicyclists and pedestrians. We are approaching the culmination of a major victory: replacing the Camden-side stairs with a ramp.

We have one more step to get the bridge we want. In the near future the Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA) will decide on the final design for that ramp. This represents our last chance to influence the ramp's design. Want to get involved? Send an e-mail in your own words about why a continuous ramp is your preferred choice.

A ramp will be built connecting the bridge to bike-friendly Pearl Street. The question is: what kind of ramp?

Of the three proposed designs alternatives, we are urging the DRPA Board to select the single continuous ramp, aka "Alternative 2." This option calls for a single ramp that follows the slope of the bridge and widens a section of the existing walkway that currently narrows to 5 feet as it approaches the to-be-replaced stair tower.

The other two options include switchbacks. A continuous ramp that does not switch back and improves the existing narrow section of the walkway would:

• maximize user convenience;
• allow for continuous eastbound travel to Pearl Street, downtown Camden, and points beyond;
• ease use of the ramp for disabled riders and people in wheel chairs;
• further enhance transportation options for pedestrians, bicyclists and wheelchair users without busting the project’s budget.

A Glimpse of the Future of Biking Along the Delaware Opened Yesterday

Philadelphia's first on-street, separated bicycle and pedestrian path received its official ribbon cutting yesterday morning. The quarter-mile Penn Street Trail runs from the intersection of Spring Garden and Delaware Ave north to Sugarhouse Casino.

The trail, featuring freshly-poured asphalt, new rain gardens for sewer management, fresh landscaping and lighting, seating and bike racks, is a pleasant respite from biking north along Delaware Ave. The trail will soon connect to a trail that goes around Sugarhouse Casino and take runners, bikers, and walkers to the recently-completed Penn Treaty Park trail.

Looking north along the trail from the Delaware & Penn Street intersection. 

Perhaps more significantly, this trail is a preview of what the Nutter Administration and the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation plan will someday be a longer trail stretching up and down Philadelphia's shoreline on the Delaware River. That 5-mile trail will slalom between the Columbus/Delaware roadway and the river's edge itself, depending on logistics of the spaces it traverses.

This section serves triple duty as part of longer trail systems. In addition to being a piece of the future Delaware River Trail, it is part of The Circuit (our regional trail system) and part of the East Coast Greenway, a trail which stretches from Maine to Florida.

Click here for more photos of the event from our Facebook page.

Click here to learn more about how this trail fits into The Circuit trail system.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, PlanPhilly, and Be Well Philly all covered the ribbon cutting.

Opening of Penn Street Trail in NoLibs Offers Glimpse of Future Delaware River Biking

It may not be long, but it sure will be nice. The Penn Street Trail, Philly's first on-road, separated bicycle and pedestrian trail, will be having its ribbon cutting on Monday, June 17th. This quarter-mile trail which runs north from Spring Garden Ave & Delaware Ave is a showcase for the infrastructure the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation and other Circuit Coalition partners are seeking to build along the Delaware.

You can join Mayor Nutter in welcoming Philly's newest and perhaps nicest section of on-street bike path Monday morning at 10:30 AM. Just say you're going out for coffee and take a little bike ride up to Spring Garden & Delaware Ave. Exercise boosts productivity anyway.